ImportYeti Scraper: US Import Records & Suppliers in 2026

Customs records don’t lie

Most B2B data describes what companies say they do. Customs records document what they actually do: every bill of lading is a real shipment between a real supplier and a real importer, on a real date. ImportYeti aggregates US import records into searchable company profiles — which means the supply chains of entire industries are sitting in public data.

For sourcing, sales and competitive analysis, that’s evidence, not marketing.

What you can extract

Per search result:

• Company / supplier name
• Entity type — supplier or importer
• Address and country code
• Total shipment count
• Most recent shipment date
• Top trading partners
• Trademarks when available
• Profile URL

The technical challenge

ImportYeti’s site is built for one-lookup-at-a-time research. Bulk extraction needs:

• Automatic pagination across large result sets.
• Classification fidelity — keeping suppliers and importers cleanly separated.
• Throughput — sourcing runs often cover hundreds of product keywords; at ~100 results per 30 seconds, batching strategy matters. The parsing itself is standard fare; the general trade-offs are covered in our API vs web scraping comparison.

DIY or a ready-made Actor?

Our ImportYeti Scraper on Apify takes a company name, product keyword or address, with filters for entity type, shipment recency (6 or 12 months) and minimum shipment count, and returns structured records with automatic pagination. Pay-per-result at about $0.005 per record.

A practical workflow

1. Search by what matters — your product category for sourcing, a competitor’s name for supply-chain analysis.
2. Filter for signal — active in the last 6 months, minimum shipment count above noise level.
3. Cross-reference — join suppliers against certifications, reviews or registry data; LLM-powered extraction helps normalize messy company names for matching.
4. Act — shortlist factories, build importer lead lists, or map a competitor’s sourcing dependencies.

Use cases that pay off

• Supplier sourcing — find factories that demonstrably ship your product category to the US, ranked by volume.
• Competitor supply-chain analysis — see who competitors import from, and how their volumes trend.
• Trade lead generation — active importers of your category are qualified buyers by definition.
• Supplier vetting — verify shipment history and client base before wiring a deposit.

The legal boundaries

• Public records at the source — US customs data is published by design; analysis sits on solid ground.
• Respect the aggregator — reasonable rates and volumes keep access sustainable.
• Company data, mostly — trade records concern businesses, but any personal contact data you attach downstream falls under privacy rules.

Getting started

Run the ImportYeti Scraper on your product keyword and you’ll see the real supplier landscape — volumes included — in minutes. Verify the entities with the North Data scraper, or find the e-commerce brands behind the imports with the Store Leads scraper. Sourcing intelligence pipelines are what we build at SilentFlow.